An curved arrow pointing right. We toured the former prison known as Eastern State Penitentiary, it housed notorious gangster Al Capone and serial bank robber William Francis Sutton. Follow BI ...

Alcatraz has enchanted tourists, conspiracy theorists and paranormal investigators with its exciting and mysterious history. Is it true that prisoners went insane? Do prisoners still haunt the empty ...

The family of Gangster Alphonse (“Scarface”) Capone paid to the U ... since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz. The former overlord of Chicago booze and prostitution was taken some 400 miles from ...

Part of a memorandum dated February 5, 1938, that appears to describe Al Capone having a seizure in Alcatraz prison after a period of confusion. Family photographs taken in 1945. Reprinted with ...

Al Capone got an ... In 1934 Capone was moved from the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, where he enjoyed privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but his health ...